Description

This Athenian neck-amphora (wine jar) is decorated in black-figure technique. On one side it shows two warriors, their shields and helmets set aside, seated over a gaming table and playing a game, perhaps dice. An extremely similar scene on a vase by Exekias identifies the warriors as Ajax and Achilles. On the other side of the vase is Herakles, wearing his lion skin, attacking the centaur Nessos, who holds a rock. In the background stands an old man, perhaps Oineus, and veiled woman, probably Deineira. On the base is a graffitti. This vase is attributed to the Toulouse Painter by Beazley.